The Syracuse University men's basketball game with Colgate on Saturday at the Carrier Dome will remain a 4:30 p.m. tip time.

According to Syracuse University Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director Joe Giansante, SU inquired about moving the start time so the basketball game would not conflict with the Syracuse-Florida State football game, which begins at 3:30 p.m., but were unable to work something out.

The decision to not move the game time is related to television.

The Syracuse-Colgate game will be broadcast over the ACC Regional Network, which has several affiliates. A tip time of 4:30 p.m. was selected weeks ago in order for the game to air on all of the ACC RSN affiliates. Syracuse University does not set the game times.

Getting all the television channels on the network to rearrange their schedules to move the game time was too complicated.

There appeared to be some flexibility on the YES Network schedule to move the game time, but YES is one of several affiliates the game will air on.

Giansante told syracuse.com that SU tries to avoid conflicts with the football team and men's basketball team whenever they can, but the TV schedules for both games did not make that possible in this case.

The Syracuse-Florida State game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. and will be shown on ABC. Syracuse is a 38.5 point underdog to the Seminoles.